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The Russian Justice Ministry has sent letters to nine media outlets on their possible registration as foreign agents. Voice of America and Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty are among those that could be recognized as foreign agents, the ministry said. The ministry also sent letters to the administration of the Kavkaz.Realii, Krym Realii and Sibir Realii websites, as well as Radio Azatliq - all of which are Radio Liberty branches based in Russia. The Current Time TV channel, a joint project of Voice of America and Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, as well as the Radio Liberty-owned factograph.info website and IdelRealii project also received letters. On Wednesday, the Russian State Duma passed the third and final reading of the bill, which requires mass-media outlets operating in the country but funded from abroad to register as foreign agents. The bill is a mirror response to Washington’s demand for RT to register as a foreign agent. Media outlets that

It was Dr Samuel Johnson who famously declared in 1775 that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel. The 2017 variant is to make unsubstantiated claims about the ‘Russian threat’ to Western democracies. In her speech at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet in the City of London on Monday evening, British Prime Minister Theresa May escalated the anti-Russian rhetoric still further with a deeply paranoid address that sounded as if it had been penned in 1953 by the late Senator Joe McCarthy during one of his drunken binges. Any psychologists watching Mrs May would have had a field day identifying plenty of examples of what mind doctors call ‘projection’ – i.e. attributing to others what you are guilty of yourself. In fact every one of May’s claims against Russia can be more accurately applied to the UK and its closest allies. The prime minister stated, “ It is Russia’s actions which threaten the international order on which we all depend. ” Really, Mrs May?

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2018, in addition to including passages involving regime change in Venezuela and exorbitant expenditures on the maintenance and expansion of American empire, continues to surprise: its latest draft includes a measure that will cement a multi-billion dollar deal between the Department of Defense (DOD) and the U.S. mega-corporation Amazon, run by the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos. If the NDAA is approved in its current form, which is highly likely according to experts, Bezos’ Amazon sets to gain $53 billion in revenue by becoming the chief supplier of an array of goods to the Department of Defense. The deal is laid out in a section titled “Procurement Through Commercial E-Commerce Portals,” in which the DOD would be required to purchase commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products — such as office supplies — from “e-commerce portals” dominated by Amazon. Though congressmen — including the NDAA’s author,

Let us not forget that Standard & Poor, Moody and Fitch rating services are financed by the banks and therefore have no real independence. Part 1 The media fabricated "default" comes before the real one. The stage is slowly being set with economic sanctions; psychological pressure on Venezuelan bondholders and a media campaign that blows out of all proportion routine financial transactions. Last Sunday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said that " default " will never come to Venezuela because the South American country " will always have a clear strategy " aimed at the renegotiation and restructuring of debt – as reported by the Spanish daily El Mundo. However, just a day later, dawn broke in Venezuela with the news that the U.S. rating agency Standard & Poor's, S&P, downgraded the country’s CC rating (very vulnerable) to "selective default" due to non-payment of US$200 million of the coupon on its bon

globinfo freexchange Recently, the famous physicist Stephen Hawking expressed concerns about the probability that one day Artificial Intelligence will completely replace humans. From cambridge-news : Renowned physicist Prof Stephen Hawking has said robots will eventually completely replace humanity. Prof Hawking said that he believes artificial intelligence (AI) will eventually reach a level where it will essentially be a " new form of life that will outperform humans " in an interview with WIRED magazine. He said: " I fear that AI may replace humans altogether. If people design computer viruses, someone will design AI that improves and replicates itself. This will be a new form of life that outperforms humans. " We had already set the big question: What if super-intelligent machines will become able to evolve without the help of any human presence? Is it worth to continue to ruin our planet just to self-destruct

Earlier this month, the Pentagon offered scant details to a group of concerned lawmakers regarding its assessment of casualties that could result from a military conflict with North Korea. However, last week, the Pentagon’s assessment was repudiated by one of its own, when retired Lt. General Jan-Marc Jouas penned a letter with a different take to the same group of lawmakers. In detailing his views on the potential outcomes of a conflict on the Korean peninsula, Jouas – the former deputy commander of U.S. Forces Korea — painted a decidedly troubling picture for Representatives Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), and Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL). While some government officials had previously warned that the death toll in South Korea’s capital, Seoul, could reach the tens of thousands within minutes, Jouas – in addition to noting this near-certitude – also stated that the U.S. military would be woefully unprepared to take on North Korean forces within their

An armed conflict between Riyadh and Tehran would have a major impact on oil markets and the global economy. RT asked experts what a war between the two Middle East superpowers would mean for crude prices. If a conflict happens, oil prices could increase 500 percent. “ Energy prices will seriously depend on the severity of the conflict. Let's remember the unrecognized Iraqi Kurdistan, which in a state of continuous war exported about 550,000 barrels per day through Turkey. In this connection, we can expect a panic rise in oil price to $150-$200 on the first day of the conflict… If Saudis and Iran attack each other's oil facilities, crude prices can skyrocket to $300, ” Mikhail Mashchenko, an analyst at the eToro social network for investors told RT. Ivan Karyakin, an investment analyst at Global FX, points out that the area of possible conflict pumps a third of global oil. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar

The humanitarian calamity in Northern Yemen, fueled by Saudi Arabia’s blockade, has been killing large numbers of people, a result of lack of medicine and increasingly scarce food. The situation just got much worse. Hopes that Sanaa International Airport would be opened to aid flights to at least slightly ease the crisis were dashed Tuesday morning when Saudi warplanes attacked the airport, destroying its navigation station and effectively shutting it down. This isn’t the first time Saudi planes have attacked the airport, and indeed strikes against aid delivery sites, the airport and Hodeidah Port, have been recurring throughout the war, making aid shipments all the more complicated even on those rare occasions when the Saudis will let such aid in at all. Saudi officials offered no justification for the attack, which added even further to UN concerns about the shortages across Yemen. The Saudi strikes underscore their increased willingness to use aid rest

του Νίκου Μπογιόπουλου Στη ΔΕΘ ο Μητσοτάκης είχε κάνει εκείνη την απίθανη τοποθέτηση ότι            η κοινωνική ισότητα είναι… αντίθετη στην ανθρώπινη φύση και στη δημοκρατία! Σήμερα ο Γεωργιάδης, μιλώντας για τις off shore και τα paradise papers, μας είπε ότι            «στο μέτρο που τα χρήματα αυτά είναι προϊόν πραγματικής εργασίας και πραγματικής δράσης (…) ναι, το να μπορεί κάποιος να ξεφύγει από μία κυβέρνηση, που θέλει να τον υπερφορολογήσει, δεν το βρίσκω καθόλου ανήθικο». Συμπέρασμα (νόμιμον και ηθικόν): Κύλησε ο (νεοφιλελεύθερος) τέντζερης και βρήκε το (θατσερικό) καπάκι. http://www.imerodromos.gr/tentzeris-me-kapaki-tou-nikou-bogiopoulou/ Απόλυτη επιβεβαίωση ότι ο Κούλης αποτελεί την καλύτερη εφεδρεία ...

At a moment of widespread acknowledgment that the short-lived Islamic State (ISIS) is no longer a reality, and as ISIS is about to be defeated by the Syrian Army in its last urban holdout of Abu Kamal City in eastern Syria, the US is signaling an open-ended military presence in Syria. On Monday Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon that the US is preparing for a long-term military commitment in Syria to fight ISIS “ as long as they want to fight. ” Mattis indicated that even should ISIS lose all of its territory there would still be a dangerous insurgency that could morph into an “ISIS 2.0” which he said the US would seek to prevent. “ The enemy hasn’t declared that they’re done with the area yet, so we’ll keep fighting as long as they want to fight, ” Mattis said. “ We’re not just going to walk away right now before the Geneva process has traction. ” Mattis was referring to the stalled peace talks in Geneva which some analysts have described as a c